The phrase "abstaining from it" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when discussing the act of refraining from engaging in a particular activity or behavior.
Example: "She is abstaining from it to focus on her health and well-being."
Alternatives: "refraining from it" or "avoiding it".
The problem, though, is that some people can't seem to find the right balance between gorging themselves on debt when times are hot, as one financial expert explained it to Paul, and abstaining from it when the economy cools.
Perhaps as long as we're abstaining from it during our encounter with the art, then engaging with it afterwards is excusable?
The primary risk of the gas is that I could hemorrhage out of my femoral artery where the catheter is placed but abstaining from it altogether is far more terrifying.
2 All human affairs are classified as fard (mandatory), mustahabb (encouraged), mubah (neutral), makruh (discouraged, not sinful but those abstaining from it will be blessed by God) or haram (prohibited).
The decision was made, (in common with other European countries), to focus on helping teenagers cope with sex and its consequences rather than trying to make them abstain from it.
Researchers have found that people who drink coffee on daily basis live longer than those who abstain from it.
"But to abstain from it is to risk the consequences of voicelessness and inaction.
As George Washington wrote to the Quakers after he became president: "Government being, among other purposes, instituted to protect the persons and consciences of men from oppression, it certainly is the duty of rulers, not only to abstain from it themselves, but, according to their stations, to prevent it in others".
Instead, I've decided to abstain from it all and hope that my acute Sleeping Beauty syndrome is cured one day by a Prince Charming who will ride up in a peanut-oil-powered vintage Land Cruiser and take me in his chiseled, vegan arms.
Intensive care should unrestrictedly be provided to patients with respiratory failure (A-II), except from those whose prognosis is desperate due to other reasons or who have given a personal directive in order to abstain from it.
We demonstrated that a specially designed positive feedback of factor VII activation combined with chemical inhibition of extrinsic tenase and flow-induced removal of factor Xa becomes a "switcher" that can "decide": whether to start clotting or to abstain from it.
